When asking questions gets action.
Sometimes we do stories, and problems are solved, people do the right thing. Sometimes, we just simply ask questions, and fixes get made. This week, Action 16 Investigates responded to a tip that more than 100 people living in a subsidized housing high-rise in Tamaqua were doing without air conditioning. We had the story of 67-year-old Leo McGrath, who on his limited income bought two fans, and kept his window shades shut to keep out the afternoon sun. And it was still a sweltering 83-degrees inside. Why no AC? Because the unit broke down in November, it was supposed to be fixed by May, now it looks like a new unit will come on line in mid-July. The current unit may be a lemon as it lasted just nine years and had a 20-year warrantee. As we put together the story Friday, Johnson Controls, the company that bought the company that made the AC unit, and therefore had to honor the warrantee called to tell us a temporary fix w...